Author Eval Herz
Lost in Space
Capitalism
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/2/19 - 09:25
Song Itineraries:
Stories from Deep Space
Riccardo Venturi, 16-4-2024 11:04
Due parole del traduttore.Obbèlla. Avevamo nel sito una canzone per la quale vengono tirati in ballo addirittura Noam Chomsky (che si avvia bel bello ai cent’anni) e Slavoj Žižek! Bisognava tradurla per forza, anche se il suo autore, Evan Herzoff detto “Eval Herz”, si schernisce dicendo di rivolgersi a loro per le analisi politiche e per le speculazioni filosofiche. Così facendo, ha scritto una canzone perfettamente filosofica e politica, che può essere così riassunta: il capitalismo è una merda e ci ammazza a tutti quanti. Enjoy!
Due parole del traduttore.Obbèlla. Avevamo nel sito una canzone per la quale vengono tirati in ballo addirittura Noam Chomsky (che si avvia bel bello ai cent’anni) e Slavoj Žižek! Bisognava tradurla per forza, anche se il suo autore, Evan Herzoff detto “Eval Herz”, si schernisce dicendo di rivolgersi a loro per le analisi politiche e per le speculazioni filosofiche. Così facendo, ha scritto una canzone perfettamente filosofica e politica, che può essere così riassunta: il capitalismo è una merda e ci ammazza a tutti quanti. Enjoy!
Perduti nello spazio
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K.I.S.S. of Death
[2012]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Solo acoustic guitar and vox..
K.I.S.S. stands for "Key to Imperialists' Sinister Success".
Robert S. McNamara said in the documentary film by Errol Morris, "Fog of War", that "in order to do good you may have to engage in evil". But what if you don't want to do good? What if you want to do evil? Then you must make it look good, right?
Examples include: Green washing, "making the world safe for democracy" via rigging elections, backing corporate-friendly autocratic political leaders and military invasions of sovereign states that have large deposits of valuable resources in their territory and democratically elected socialists or populists, as well as pink-washing, historical revisionism (Columbus Day and Thanksgiving are perfect examples), social cleansing for purposes of "urban renewal" a.k.a. gentrification, minimizing the scope of political... (Continues)
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Solo acoustic guitar and vox..
K.I.S.S. stands for "Key to Imperialists' Sinister Success".
Robert S. McNamara said in the documentary film by Errol Morris, "Fog of War", that "in order to do good you may have to engage in evil". But what if you don't want to do good? What if you want to do evil? Then you must make it look good, right?
Examples include: Green washing, "making the world safe for democracy" via rigging elections, backing corporate-friendly autocratic political leaders and military invasions of sovereign states that have large deposits of valuable resources in their territory and democratically elected socialists or populists, as well as pink-washing, historical revisionism (Columbus Day and Thanksgiving are perfect examples), social cleansing for purposes of "urban renewal" a.k.a. gentrification, minimizing the scope of political... (Continues)
Don't take without asking unless your question's worded shrewd
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Contributed by giorgio 2013/6/18 - 09:10
The Calm Before The Storm
[2012]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
This is a song I wrote some years ago about war being like domestic violence in a dysfunctional human family, and how this can only lead to meager survival in an unlivable world just preceding our extinction. A Dystopian Folk Rock original.
This is a song about the fate of the human family, and therefore the fate of humanity as a whole. It's only fate because of nurture so stop blaming nature and life when it is clearly society's fault! It's something we learned and therefore can be changed, prevented, but it's not because we can't - it's because we won't.
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
This is a song I wrote some years ago about war being like domestic violence in a dysfunctional human family, and how this can only lead to meager survival in an unlivable world just preceding our extinction. A Dystopian Folk Rock original.
This is a song about the fate of the human family, and therefore the fate of humanity as a whole. It's only fate because of nurture so stop blaming nature and life when it is clearly society's fault! It's something we learned and therefore can be changed, prevented, but it's not because we can't - it's because we won't.
We're only waiting
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Contributed by giorgio 2013/6/6 - 08:13
Red Light Hypostrict
[2012]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
A very dark song inspired by the extreme essence of greed, the culture of poverty, found most often in neighborhoods inhabited by college students, yuppies, hookers and crackheads - and that's ONE neighborhood...
"This is a song I wrote while I was down and out, couch surfing, and while spending too much time observing the cold realities of life in the red light districts of South Federal Blvd. and East Colfax Ave. in Denver, Colorado, the "Queen City".
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
A very dark song inspired by the extreme essence of greed, the culture of poverty, found most often in neighborhoods inhabited by college students, yuppies, hookers and crackheads - and that's ONE neighborhood...
"This is a song I wrote while I was down and out, couch surfing, and while spending too much time observing the cold realities of life in the red light districts of South Federal Blvd. and East Colfax Ave. in Denver, Colorado, the "Queen City".
Why can't they understand that a strip club is about the last place I wanna' hear the name Jesus
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Contributed by giorgio 2013/5/29 - 09:07
Israeli Kafkaesque
[2012]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Acoustic guitar & vox...
A song written in response to Israel's latest illegal war on the population of Gaza.
Palestine is now the 194th state as the UN overwhelmingly voted for their recognition.
Yours truly, Eval Herz, is a Jewish American. I wrote this song in response to the illegal Israeli siege of Gaza happening now, and especially the Kafkaesque "justification" Israel pushes on the hearts and minds of the world via their extraordinary propaganda power and their unjust influence with the USA. The USA supplies Israel with money to buy the USA's weapons, including "predator drones", and the USA uses its power via executive seat on the UN Security Council to condone Israel's doing to the Palestinians exactly what the Nazis did to us in Europe in the 1930s and 40s.
A ceasefire is not enough, Israel has committed these war crimes too... (Continues)
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Acoustic guitar & vox...
A song written in response to Israel's latest illegal war on the population of Gaza.
Palestine is now the 194th state as the UN overwhelmingly voted for their recognition.
Yours truly, Eval Herz, is a Jewish American. I wrote this song in response to the illegal Israeli siege of Gaza happening now, and especially the Kafkaesque "justification" Israel pushes on the hearts and minds of the world via their extraordinary propaganda power and their unjust influence with the USA. The USA supplies Israel with money to buy the USA's weapons, including "predator drones", and the USA uses its power via executive seat on the UN Security Council to condone Israel's doing to the Palestinians exactly what the Nazis did to us in Europe in the 1930s and 40s.
A ceasefire is not enough, Israel has committed these war crimes too... (Continues)
First I hit you in the face
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Contributed by giorgio 2013/5/26 - 09:35
Song Itineraries:
The Palestinian Holocaust
Just a Few Questions
[2002]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Album: Disillusioning [2010]
A song about the legitimate questions rarely heard in mainstream media about all 9/11s. There was one in 1973 in Chile, one in 1988 in Haiti and more, and the song reflects on the war crimes and terror that always seem to follow these 9/11 tragedies..
"I wrote this song originally in 2002 and then revised it in 2009. The song was inspired by journalists like Greg Palast, Amy Goodman, John Pilger and Robert Fisk, as well as the documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, all of whom asked tough questions and did exhaustive investigations into not only 9/11 but the state terrorism that followed.
It is all too often we hear only about our own 9/11, however there were many 9/11s. There was 9/11/88 in Haiti, 9/11/90 in Guatemala, and 9/11/73 in Chile. In all of these the US spy agencies' allies in those countries committed atrocities,... (Continues)
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Album: Disillusioning [2010]
A song about the legitimate questions rarely heard in mainstream media about all 9/11s. There was one in 1973 in Chile, one in 1988 in Haiti and more, and the song reflects on the war crimes and terror that always seem to follow these 9/11 tragedies..
"I wrote this song originally in 2002 and then revised it in 2009. The song was inspired by journalists like Greg Palast, Amy Goodman, John Pilger and Robert Fisk, as well as the documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, all of whom asked tough questions and did exhaustive investigations into not only 9/11 but the state terrorism that followed.
It is all too often we hear only about our own 9/11, however there were many 9/11s. There was 9/11/88 in Haiti, 9/11/90 in Guatemala, and 9/11/73 in Chile. In all of these the US spy agencies' allies in those countries committed atrocities,... (Continues)
Who's really running the country?
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/30 - 16:07
MSNBC
[2011]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
MSNBC promotes imperialist wars for GE !
MSNBC, owned by GE, is promoting insanity for imperial greed, as usual.
I literally wrote this song and recorded, mixed, and uploaded it within the last 15 minutes..
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
MSNBC promotes imperialist wars for GE !
MSNBC, owned by GE, is promoting insanity for imperial greed, as usual.
I literally wrote this song and recorded, mixed, and uploaded it within the last 15 minutes..
Rah Rah Rah for the home team [x3]
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/30 - 14:27
To Afghan War Escalation We Say NO
"Pictures and footage, in this video, are all from my camera and they are from various anti-war demonstrations in recent months, held in Denver, Colorado in 2009. Some pictures are from an anti-war demonstration in 2005 (black & white).
The music is a little homemade improvised piece I call "Jamming with myself". To record the rhythm and lead guitar I actually placed my camera, switched to the audio feature, about a foot in front of my little practice amp. For the lead guitar wah sound I ran the signal through a Cry Baby wah pedal. Then I smoothed out the sound using the processing software on my laptop, added a little compression and reverb, then I composed the drums and bass using MIDI software instruments".
The music is a little homemade improvised piece I call "Jamming with myself". To record the rhythm and lead guitar I actually placed my camera, switched to the audio feature, about a foot in front of my little practice amp. For the lead guitar wah sound I ran the signal through a Cry Baby wah pedal. Then I smoothed out the sound using the processing software on my laptop, added a little compression and reverb, then I composed the drums and bass using MIDI software instruments".
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/30 - 13:30
Speaking Fantasy
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Album: Disillusioning
A strong song about cultural accumulation, forced assimilation, and the psychological warfare of colonialism.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs, the militia, the Smithsonian, the boarding schools, the Philadelphia exposition and Chicago World's Fair, and the society imposed by European occupiers of Turtle Island have almost completed that which created space for the behavior and ambitions of the German Nationalists during World Wars I and II, namely a holocaust.
Part of this has been a kind of psychological warfare that works to the effect of erasing the memory of entire populations, to recreate them as inevitably defeated and seemingly self-evident inferiors, thereby justifying visibly, though not morally nor factually, the existence of a created creed, ethnicity, and nationality we now identify as "American". It is as though... (Continues)
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Album: Disillusioning
A strong song about cultural accumulation, forced assimilation, and the psychological warfare of colonialism.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs, the militia, the Smithsonian, the boarding schools, the Philadelphia exposition and Chicago World's Fair, and the society imposed by European occupiers of Turtle Island have almost completed that which created space for the behavior and ambitions of the German Nationalists during World Wars I and II, namely a holocaust.
Part of this has been a kind of psychological warfare that works to the effect of erasing the memory of entire populations, to recreate them as inevitably defeated and seemingly self-evident inferiors, thereby justifying visibly, though not morally nor factually, the existence of a created creed, ethnicity, and nationality we now identify as "American". It is as though... (Continues)
You speak.. -as though you exist
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/29 - 15:15
Lips and Eyes
[2011]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
An anti-war song about the psychology of violence and war(1)
"I wrote this song about what I believe are the actual causes, not merely the positive correlations, the conditions, rational aspects, but the actual causes of war and acts of political violence. Have you ever accidentally given someone the "evil eye" and then been attacked by that person? Have you noticed in Greek tragedies and even Shakespeare that there is a recurring emphasis on the eyes and the tongue. The eyes gather information then used as ammunition fired by the tongue, more or less, to bring out a person's shame, humiliating them. Now consider what occurs when entire populations see their leader gazing down the "enemy" that they've rendered a scapegoat, then saying something wise, or for that matter "Presidential" sounding, and the other side of that signal, the threat perceived... (Continues)
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
An anti-war song about the psychology of violence and war(1)
"I wrote this song about what I believe are the actual causes, not merely the positive correlations, the conditions, rational aspects, but the actual causes of war and acts of political violence. Have you ever accidentally given someone the "evil eye" and then been attacked by that person? Have you noticed in Greek tragedies and even Shakespeare that there is a recurring emphasis on the eyes and the tongue. The eyes gather information then used as ammunition fired by the tongue, more or less, to bring out a person's shame, humiliating them. Now consider what occurs when entire populations see their leader gazing down the "enemy" that they've rendered a scapegoat, then saying something wise, or for that matter "Presidential" sounding, and the other side of that signal, the threat perceived... (Continues)
The lips and the eyes
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/29 - 08:45
Martyrdom
[2011]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
A song for the martyrs, including those who never got a silhouette, and those who never will.
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
A song for the martyrs, including those who never got a silhouette, and those who never will.
Oh, – how I wish I was dead
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/29 - 08:35
Century of the Living Dead
[2012]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
→ Singing austerity…
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
→ Singing austerity…
I am dead -yet I'm still living
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Contributed by giorgio 2012/3/28 - 08:58
Inhume Weapons of War
[2011]
Music by Evan Herzoff
This is a minimalist composition made with MIDI and synth. To inhume weapons of war means to lay weapons of war to rest, to put them in the grave instead of people...
Music by Evan Herzoff
This is a minimalist composition made with MIDI and synth. To inhume weapons of war means to lay weapons of war to rest, to put them in the grave instead of people...
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/4/25 - 20:27
We've Got Your Back
[2011]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
A song for solidarity. Stop the war on workers!
"This is a very rough draft version of the latest song I've written. Literally I wrote it today. Feel free to cover it, sing it in picket lines, marches, rallies, sit-ins, etc. This is a union song for solidarity! The chords I use are simple G Major - D Major - C Major, 2/2 time. But by all means make the music however you like, variety and imagination are beautiful things".
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
A song for solidarity. Stop the war on workers!
"This is a very rough draft version of the latest song I've written. Literally I wrote it today. Feel free to cover it, sing it in picket lines, marches, rallies, sit-ins, etc. This is a union song for solidarity! The chords I use are simple G Major - D Major - C Major, 2/2 time. But by all means make the music however you like, variety and imagination are beautiful things".
Well you know all this Koch money - it stains the political scene
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/4/25 - 20:13
Spare Change
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Album: Disillusioning
This is a song about the economy, politics, theories of social and political "change" and the legacy shared by Barack H. Obama and George W. Bush, the 44th and 43rd Presidents of the United States respectively. Bush set Obama up to offer 'change' and then not deliver, and thus we got "spare change" at best, while the principal remains unchanged and in the hands of those who did not produce it!
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Album: Disillusioning
This is a song about the economy, politics, theories of social and political "change" and the legacy shared by Barack H. Obama and George W. Bush, the 44th and 43rd Presidents of the United States respectively. Bush set Obama up to offer 'change' and then not deliver, and thus we got "spare change" at best, while the principal remains unchanged and in the hands of those who did not produce it!
I don't know why
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/4/25 - 08:50
Spineless
[2011]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
A song about executive cowardice…
Shabbat Shalom = Salam Alaikum
Kosher = Halal
Semite = Semite
Israel = Palestine
Government = Fear
Power = Divide and Conquer
Executive = Cowardice
Elected President = Broken Promises
Anarchy = Peace
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
A song about executive cowardice…
Shabbat Shalom = Salam Alaikum
Kosher = Halal
Semite = Semite
Israel = Palestine
Government = Fear
Power = Divide and Conquer
Executive = Cowardice
Elected President = Broken Promises
Anarchy = Peace
President Obama, –when will you ever grow a spine?
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/4/24 - 21:17
Flotilla
[2010]
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Album: Disillusioning
"I wrote this song in the days that followed the release of video taken aboard the Freedom Flotilla as the fleet that set off from Turkey attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza undergoing a blockade by Israeli. The video showed Israeli soldiers landing on the Mavi Marmara where they committed a massacre. The song is about a broader context though, and since I'm at least ethnically a Jew, an American Jew in fact, I wrote it from the viewpoint of a Jew in order to break through the barrier created by the myth of our supposed historically continuous abuse and oppression by other peoples. When will Israel ever allow us to be freed from the virtual prison created by this paranoid myth? Just look at how it compels us to behave toward our nearest ancestral relative, the Palestinians, as semitic as we are.... (Continues)
Lyrics & Music by Evan Herzoff
Album: Disillusioning
"I wrote this song in the days that followed the release of video taken aboard the Freedom Flotilla as the fleet that set off from Turkey attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza undergoing a blockade by Israeli. The video showed Israeli soldiers landing on the Mavi Marmara where they committed a massacre. The song is about a broader context though, and since I'm at least ethnically a Jew, an American Jew in fact, I wrote it from the viewpoint of a Jew in order to break through the barrier created by the myth of our supposed historically continuous abuse and oppression by other peoples. When will Israel ever allow us to be freed from the virtual prison created by this paranoid myth? Just look at how it compels us to behave toward our nearest ancestral relative, the Palestinians, as semitic as we are.... (Continues)
When Israel was in Egypt land he said let my people go
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Contributed by giorgio 2011/2/19 - 10:00
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Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel: Evan Herzoff
"..Ask Slavoj Žižek or Noam Chomsky, or somebody like that. I'm a songwriter, not a political analyst, nor a philosopher. At least, not explicitly. Anyways, capitalism is collapsing, enjoy!"